US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on June 17 for "Selective speech-to-text for deaf or severely hearing impaired" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,076, issued on June 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Selective speech-to-text for deaf or severely hearing impaired" was invented by Brant Candelore (Poway, Calif.) and Mahyar Nejat (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing selectivity to a speech-to-text system operates a voice transcription assistant coupled to the speech-to-text system such that speech detected by the speech-to-text system is not transcribed into text for display to a user unless the voice transcription assistant determines that the detected speech is relevant to the user.Smart glasses, including at least one microphone,...